Four people have been sentenced to death for killing a schoolboy in Chatak upazila of Sunamganj district in 2015.
Sylhet Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal Judge Rezaul Karim passed the order on Wednesday.
The condemned convicts are: Imam of the local mosque Suwebur Rahman Sujon, Rafiqur Rahman, Zahid Ahmed, and Saleh Ahmad.
Saleh was tried in absentia as has yet to be arrested.
The court also fined the convicts Tk20,000 each.
According to the prosecution, Mostafizur Rahman Imon—of Batirkandi village under Chatak upazila of Sunamganj upazila—son of Zahur Ali, a Saudi expatriate, was kidnapped by the convicts on March 27, 2015.
Later, the kidnappers killed him after receiving the ransom money. The victim's father filed a case in this connection.
On April 8, 2015, police arrested Sujon from Kadamtoli Bus stand area, in Dhaka, after tracking his mobile phone.
Upon further interrogation and investigation police recovered a knife— plus the skull and bones of Imon—from a haor area in Batirkandi village.
On November 21, 2016, police submitted a charge sheet against seven people.
